Start-Up

Portugal is preparing for a change to more favourable winds on the international economic scene according to Portugal’s secretary of State for the Economy, João Rui Ferreira. Addressing movers [...]

The CEO and co-founder of Infraspeak, Felipe Ávila da Costa is the winner of the João Vasconcelos Award – Entrepreneur of the Year. Winners in the other categories were Isabel Carapeta, [...]

Unicorn Factory Lisboa has just announced the finalist startups and entrepreneurs for the Entrepreneurship Awards 2025 – an event that pays tribute to the founders, startups, and leaders in [...]

There are only two Portuguese startups that have made it on the ranking ‘Sifted 250 – The Fastest-growing European Startups in 2025’. They are sheerMe and Bloq.it. sheerMe has developed  a [...]

Two Portuguese pet startups have joined forces to create a ‘pet hub’ in downtown Porto with plans to bring in more startups to the 250m2 office space. Maven and Purrmi have created a versatile [...]

Portuguese business angels fund Angels Way has invested in three AI-focused startups: Cortmaster, Curiouz, and WiseWorld. It brings the total number of start ups supported by Angels Way over the [...]

The Portuguese computer assisted translation company Unbabel may have been forced in a flash sale because it was losing 50% of its business turnover and the projected figures for the future were [...]

If you wanted to get an overview of the startup ecosystem in Portugal than you couldn’t have done better than immerse yourself in the two-day Startup World Cup Portugal competition held at the [...]

The US translation technology company TransPerfect has acquired the Portuguese automated translation company Unbabel for an undisclosed sum. TransPerfect is the largest translation company in the [...]

The Porto-based smart retail tech startup Reckon.ai has attracted investment of €5.1 million to help its international expansion drive. It aims to set up smart micro-shops in the US – [...]